The National Book Award winners and finalist have been announced. Take a look at the winners, as well as the books that were nominated for this pretentious award.
Note: we don’t currently have any of the Poetry winners or nominees in the system. For a complete list, look here.
Fiction
Winner
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
Finalists
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar / The Antidote by Karen Russell/ North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford/ Palaver by Bryan Washington
Longlist
Flashlight by Susan Choi /The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy /The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri /Only Son by Kevin Moffett/ The Pelican Child by Joy Williams
Nonfiction
Winner
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Finalists
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe /Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li /Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe/ When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas
Longlist
Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle /For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising by Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy /The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin /Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening by Ben Ratliff/ The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow
Translated Literature
Winner
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Finalists
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle/ The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje /We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov/ Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno
Longlist
The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera /Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa /We Do Not Part by Han Kang /Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir /Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Young People’s Literature
Winner
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri
Finalists
A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff/ The Leaving Room by Amber McBride /Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr /(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi
Longlist
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila /The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum /The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes /A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne /Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
